by PAULA WHITE Special to Montclair Local If you haven’t yet seen the New Jersey Monthly magazine’s Top 100 High Schools list in its September 2018 issue, consider this a […]
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Montclair Local Town Square: Jean Clark had a vision for Earth
by GRAY RUSSELL Special to Montclair Local When Montclair resident Jean Clark was a little girl, her family spent summers at the Adirondack camp owned by her grandfather, C.W. Anderson. […]
Montclair Local Town Square: Inside the Succeed2Gether tutoring program
by CANDY J. COOPER Special to Montclair Local Here come the second-grade Neupane twins, with their dark curly hair and pinkish garb, and still I can’t tell them apart. I […]
Montclair Local Town Square: Once upon a time, a Syrian love story
by JILLIAN GREEN DIGIACOMO Special to Montclair Local Abdul Alargha came to New Jersey several years before he was able to secure the visas to bring Rana Kurdi and the […]
Town Square: bringing the circus to Montclair
Montclair Film’s Bob Feinberg reports on his trip to Sundance, and how it made him a film buff.
Old Montclair, new Montclair: we’re all neighbors
by Robin Ehrlichman Woods for Montclair Local I wasn’t born in Montclair, and don’t have generations of relatives living here. We are first-generation residents, and that will probably stay the […]
Town Square: 6/15/17
By Elizabeth Voltman Ubuntu is a South African term that the Oxford English Dictionary defines as a quality that includes the essential human virtues, especially compassion and humanity. On Wednesday, […]
Town Square: 6/8/17
By Paula White, Montclair Achievement Gap Advisory Panel Montclair’s public schools strike a delicately engineered balance of racial composition, but they have yet to realize equity in academic challenge, opportunity […]
Opinion: In primary, local GOP looks for different kind of victory
by John Van Wagner for Montclair Local This past May 18, history was made at the Bloomfield Town Pub. You heard it here first. There were no political luminaries there, […]
Town Square: 6/1/17
By John Van Wagner, Montclair Republican Club This past May 18, history was made at the Bloomfield Town Pub. You heard it here first. There were no political luminaries there, […]
Town Square: 5/25/17
By Sandy Sorkin I have a dilemma and I am not certain of a means to a compromise. I also have an acknowledgment. My wife and I have had numerous pets […]
Town Square: 5/18/17
By Aimee Huber, executive director of First Choice Women’s Resource Center and Gina Shaw As the parent of a Hillside student who will be attending Glenfield in the fall, I […]
Montclair, let’s widen our circle of inclusion
By Joan Hocky For Montclair Local Recently my son and I attended a sensory-friendly program as part of Autism Awareness month at Van Vleck house, an architectural and environmental gem. […]
Town Square: 5/11/17
By Candy Cooper I can’t decide where this story begins, though I know that I came to it in the middle and along the margins. Does it start in 1998, […]